Slip and Fall

Slip and fall accidents can take place anywhere. Property owners are responsible for keeping safe premises for all who enter their property – this includes visitors, bystanders, employees or customers. Negligent upkeep of premises may include poorly lit stairs, damaged roofing and flooring, slick areas and many others.

Among other areas of your body, slip and fall injuries can involve physical damage to tendons and muscles in your knees, hip, back, and feet. Many of these injuries can be permanent, causing high medical bills and loss of income. For that reason, hiring an attorney is an essential step in recovering not only from the physical burden, but from the financial one as well.

Determining liability in these types of cases means that either the owner or employee of the premises caused the damage, spill, tear, etc. that made you slip and fall, or the owner/employee knew about the problem and did nothing about it, or the owner/employee should have known about the problem. In many cases this is a common sense call. For example, if there was a tear in the carpet of a casino caused by moving furniture around, it is pretty obvious that someone working there would know about it.

Your claim for compensation in slip and fall cases not only depends on the liability of the owner of the premises, but also on your own actions. Determining how to define your actions, however, is one really good reason to call an attorney at the David Francis Law Firm. Insurance and multinational companies have attorneys working hard on their side and so should you.

If you have been injured in a slip and fall accident as a result of another’s negligence, contact us today.